March 2016 COTM **Winner**
02-29-2016, 09:57 PM
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March 2016 COTM **Winner**
Congratulations, havacamaro! You have reigned supreme in the ultimate Third Gen battle: The Battle of the IROC Zs, and are March 2016's Car of the Month Winner!
It seems that it was only recently that havacamaro burst onto the scene with this monster of a Camaro. Taking this car from whatever it was to what it is now was no doubt a lot of hard work that deserves respect and recognition. And the Third Gen Community approves of the end result. She's bold, beautiful, black, brutal, and a bad *** bitch - this car has all the B-words covered.
The car started off as a butchered up iroc, the tbi motor was replaced with a slouch 350 with 305 heads on it. I have touched every bolt and done all of the work on the car myself. Currently it has a 355 lt1 swap done to it, putting down about 400 to the wheels c6 vette 5 spoke wheels, t56 trans, 3.73 gears, and c7 z51 brembo brakes from Scott over at Bigbrakeupgrade.
The car came with the 90-92 blisters on it, so I kept them, and got the matching ground effects, and decided to go with a firebird style wing.
The car came with the 90-92 blisters on it, so I kept them, and got the matching ground effects, and decided to go with a firebird style wing.
02-29-2016, 10:03 PM
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Also, let me be the first to state the obvious:
NufNuffZ28
Manic Z
ev305tpi
GASPEDDLER
scottmoyer
Sinister Z
HankL69
...whether you got beat out by a single vote or did not get all the love your car deserves, all you guys have very elite, special cars - any one of which would have also made a world-beating representative as Car of the Month.
NufNuffZ28
Manic Z
ev305tpi
GASPEDDLER
scottmoyer
Sinister Z
HankL69
...whether you got beat out by a single vote or did not get all the love your car deserves, all you guys have very elite, special cars - any one of which would have also made a world-beating representative as Car of the Month.
03-01-2016, 07:29 AM
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03-01-2016, 07:36 AM
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Congratulations havacamaro!
a sweet ride and well deserved!
VERY tough field this month and none of the irocs are losers! they are all winners in my book!
havacamaro enjoy your week of honor!
a sweet ride and well deserved!
VERY tough field this month and none of the irocs are losers! they are all winners in my book!
havacamaro enjoy your week of honor!
03-01-2016, 12:16 PM
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Car: 86 camaro iroc z
Engine: 355 LT1 Full Roller
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Axle/Gears: 9 bolt 3.73 posi
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Thanks guys!
That gif is awesome Linson haha
That gif is awesome Linson haha
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03-01-2016, 05:44 PM
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03-01-2016, 06:08 PM
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Badass IROC havacamaro. Nice win! The video sealed my vote. Lucky #13...
LOL@Linson. Nice work!
LOL@Linson. Nice work!
03-01-2016, 08:15 PM
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Car: 92 & 91 Z28 1LEs, 87 IROC-Z, 90 ZR1
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Axle/Gears: 3.45, 3.42, 3.73, 3.27
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Congrats man!! Love how your car looks very very straight, tough to do on a black car, nice job esp on the bodywork!
And thanks for the kind words Linson, much appreciated bud!
And thanks for the kind words Linson, much appreciated bud!
03-02-2016, 08:16 AM
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Congrats on this month's win. This was the closest I've ever gotten to winning here. Lots of nice cars on TGO. Keep nominating and voting.
03-02-2016, 02:10 PM
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Beautiful car. Clearly lots of work was involved. Congrats!
03-03-2016, 12:17 AM
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Car: 1984 Camaro Z28 H.O.
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Congratulations on having such an awesome IROC, all nice cars this month!
03-03-2016, 01:57 PM
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Car: 1989 camaro iroc-z
Engine: L98 350 5.7 bored 0.30 over
Transmission: 2400 stall lockout
Axle/Gears: 3.27
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Smooth as silk man! What gauges/headlights are those?
03-03-2016, 05:32 PM
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Car: 86 camaro iroc z
Engine: 355 LT1 Full Roller
Transmission: T56
Axle/Gears: 9 bolt 3.73 posi
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https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/auto...ight-swap.html
This is the info on the headlight swap for those that have been asking
As far as for the gauges, I got the overlays on ebay a couple years ago, and have not been able to find them since, the ones on the right of the pic are glowshifts, and they are the closest I have been able to match. Thanks again guys!
This is the info on the headlight swap for those that have been asking
As far as for the gauges, I got the overlays on ebay a couple years ago, and have not been able to find them since, the ones on the right of the pic are glowshifts, and they are the closest I have been able to match. Thanks again guys!
03-03-2016, 07:55 PM
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Car: 1991 Formula 350, 2002 Grand Prix G
Engine: 350 with SLP & Edlebrock mods
Transmission: 4-speed automatic-700 R4
Axle/Gears: 10 bolt with 3:73
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Very NIZZZZZZE. I love it when you mod an FBody and it all comes together. Not everybody is a fan of STOCK and back in the day of GTO's-Olds 442-Buick GS-Cuda,-Mustangs and so forth, not one of those cars were left stock the minute it rolled of the lot, I know I was one of those guys.
03-04-2016, 05:51 PM
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Car: 1989 IROC-Z. Original owner
Engine: LB9. Dual Cats. Big Cam
Transmission: World Class T-5
Axle/Gears: BW 3.45
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Congrats! You can tell you put a lot of hard work into it!
03-10-2016, 08:44 PM
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Man, I keep looking at this car every time I log in to TGO and being the freak that I am trying to always make something better, if this car were mine I'd love some white lettering on the rubber. I do realize though, that it's difficult to find on 18" & 19" tires these days...
03-10-2016, 08:59 PM
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Car: 86 camaro iroc z
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Man, I keep looking at this car every time I log in to TGO and being the freak that I am trying to always make something better, if this car were mine I'd love some white lettering on the rubber. I do realize though, that it's difficult to find on 18" & 19" tires these days...
03-11-2016, 08:20 AM
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Man, I keep looking at this car every time I log in to TGO and being the freak that I am trying to always make something better, if this car were mine I'd love some white lettering on the rubber. I do realize though, that it's difficult to find on 18" & 19" tires these days...
do they make them? I really only like the old eagle GT outlines. outlines are cooler.. one day they will come back
03-11-2016, 09:12 AM
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Car: 1989 camaro iroc-z
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03-16-2016, 02:03 PM
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Car: 1985 IROC Z28
Engine: Rebuilt '69 327 0.030
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Axle/Gears: 3.70
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Thank you for the eBay link. I was looking at Intellitronix as my speedo can be calibrated easily but I dislike the tach. The overlays may be the way and I will just have to spend time figuring out the gears to match the speedo.
03-17-2016, 10:07 AM
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Ahhh, old school white letters. I'm in the same boat. No white letters, raised or outlined for a 16" tire anywhere. I did however find some tire tattoo letters for mine, and they are guaranteed the life of the tire and so far (1 year) they have held up great, but they are geared toward sports fans. I drive mine to college football games here at home during the season and turn the tires in the rest of the year, but I gotta tell ya....NOTHING looks better than a 16 inch iroc wheel with raised white letters. I just wish tires mfgs would catch back on!
03-17-2016, 03:05 PM
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The raised white letter tires were seen on 15" tires mostly. No third gen came with raised whites on a 16" tire. I don't know if the 16" tires had raised whites at other times, or for other models, but never on a 3rd gen.
03-17-2016, 03:11 PM
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I personally have never seen raised whites on ANY 16" rim at any time. Which is strange because there is a market for it. The 85-87 Iroc wheels were extremely popular when they came out, and you would think that raised letters on a Camaro would have a huge fan base....but they never put them on there originally. A car sporting the name "International Race of Champions" should have came standard with raised white letter Goodyears...lol
03-18-2016, 11:56 AM
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03-18-2016, 03:04 PM
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04-01-2016, 11:20 PM
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This is by far one of my favorite camaros. From the grill and lights to overlays and hp. I love it. Found a new screensaver.
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